Liquid-container having separable top



C. S. BARON. LIQUID CONTAINER HAVING SEPABABLE TOP. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1919.

1,389,734. PatentedSept. 6, 1921.

Fiqg 3 INVENTORI 1 ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. BARON, OF TIFFIN, OHIO.

LIQUID-CONTAINER HAVING SEPARABLE TOP.

' Application filed May 31,

To all to ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns S. BARON, a citizen of the United States of America, resident of Tifiin, in the county of Seneca, in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Containers Having separable Tops, of which th following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relatesto tops for jugs or other containers for liquids, such, for example, as syrup pitchers, and has for its object the production of a means of connect-ionbetween the top, which is preferably made of sheet metal, and the container, which is usually made of glass or fictile material,.whereby not only may the top be readily disconnected from the container, but whereby, also, an improved stability and rigidity of union between the parts is effected.

My present invention belongs to that class of tops and containers which, for recognized sanitary reasons, are made separable and in which the union between the top and the container is effected by aid-of a slipjoint connection as contradistinguished from a clip connection.

A slip-joint connection, broadly, is old in theart, but the connection of that kind hitherto employed, has been one in which the container being provided with a male member, the top is provided with a female member and contact is made between said members in three planes only. In consequence of the limitations imposed by such a connection, it has been found impracticale thereby to effect a durably firm and stable union between the top and the container.

By my invention, I provide, between the two members to be directly united, a slipjoint having a contactual relationship along a plurality of planes, not less than four, and thereby effecting a stable and rigid union between the parts.

What constitutes my invention will be hereinafter specified in detail and succinctly set forth in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure I is a side elevation of the upper part of a syrup pitcher and top, showing one form of embodiment of my invention, with the top partially separated from the pitcher.

Fig. II is a view at right angles to Fig. I,

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

1919. Serial No. 301,050.

showing the handle of the pitcher as if detached.

v Fig. III is a view similar to Fig. II, showing a slight modification of the top-engaging portion of the handle.

Fig. IV is a cross-sectional view of the two engaging members shown in Fig. I.

Figs. V to XVI inclusive illustrate, each in a showing corresponding to Fig. IV, a few of the many modifications of the shape of the engaging members of the container and top which are contemplated by me as coming within the purview of my invention.

Referring to the numerals on the drawing, 1 indicates the body of the container, and 2, one engaging -member projecting therefrom whose top face is substantially flush with the rim 3 of the container which defines the mouth thereof. The member 2, in respect to its special function, may be broadly designated a core, and is preferably an integral part of the handle 1.

To the core 2, the fixed portion 5 of the containertop is secured by a slip-joint connection which comprehends my present invention. Said fixed portion 5 carries a movable top-section 7 that is hinged to it, as indicated at 6, and adapted to be opened by aid of a thumb-piece 8, but which iskept normally closed as by a spring 9 coiled about the pintle of the hinge 6.

The slip-joint connection above referred to substantially consists in provision, upon the top 5, of rigid depending cheek-plates 10 and 11, which terminate, respectively, in iii-turned flanges 12 and 18. The flanges 12 and 13 engage upon opposite sides and in close contactual relationship, the lower plane face of the core 2, as is best indicated by the numerals 15 and 16 in Fig. II of the drawing, and as is shown also in Figs. I and IV. In Fig. III the effect of the said engaging faces 15 and 16 is secured by the aid of channels 1'? and 18 between the two parts of the handle 42., one of which is the core 2.

The essential feature of my invention is represented in the contactual relationship along a prescribed plurality of planes effected between the core 2 on the one part, and the top 5 with its cheek-plates 10 and 12 and their respective in-turned flanges 12 and 13, on the other part. The purpose of such relationship is to securely fasten the top 5 to the core 2 so that the union may resist any tendency to disturb it, as, for example, by

lifting strain upon its free end, which pressure upon the thumb-piece 8 tends to pro duce, or by twisting strain of the top about the core 2. It is by provision of efiectual resistance to loosening of, the parts under those two strains which are, potentially at least, constantly present in all forms of connections between containers and their tops, but more particularly of that class in which the top is made separable from the container, that I effect that durably firm and stable union between the top and the container which it is the object of my invention to secure. In the form of embodiment of my invention shown in F igs.'I to IV, inclusive, but with special reference to- Fig. IV, the core 2 is shown as a rectangular quadrilateral, in cross-section, and this form is, by reason of its regularity and simplicity, the one at pres ent preferred. Nevertheless, in Figs. V to XVI, inclusive, with a View to indicating some of the numerous modifications which come within the purview of my invention, I show, in cross-section, as in Fig. IV, other forms of my slip-joint connection.

applicable to those various modifications will be obvious, perhaps, in each instance without an explanation; but with respect to Figs. III, IX, X, XIII and XVI, a little additional explanation may be in order.

In Fig. V III, five planes of contactual relationship are presented as indicated by a, b, c, d, and 6, respectively. In that figure, the female engagingmember which includes and unites the top 5 to the core is indicated as a whole by the numeral 19, in which the cheek plates 20 and 21 are bent, shaped or fashioned so as to make definite engagement along the planes 0 and e, and b and d, respectively, as well as a. Close conformity of the. entire member 19 to the full contour of its core would result, after a short period of use, in a loosening of the fit, but, by the shaping of the member19 on slightly different lines from those of the core and The terms in which I define my invention as plurality of planes of contact, in this in-' stance five, is made available.

A comparison of Fig. VIII withFig. X

and of Fig. XIII with Fig. 'XVI will suffice to show that the principle of my invention is equally applicable to cores in which adjacent planes are united by bends'of angular contour as'to those in which adjacent planes are united by bends of curvilinear contours; Fig. VIII, for example, is1substantially identical with F ig. X, except that in the former the bends that unite the' planes 6 and (Z, and c and 6, respectively, are curvi linear, whereas, in the latter the corresponding bends are of angular contour.

What I claim, is: Q V The combination with a container provided with a projecting member, of a removable top comprisingv a securing extension thereon detachably fitting over and slidable longitudinally of said member to form a slip-joint therewith, said extension tightly fitting said member and having portions depending from the top surface of said memher and relatively rigid with relation thereto snugly engaglng the same along not less than four planes of contact to therebyeiiectively resist strains tending to displace the top.

:In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

7 CHARLES s. BARON. Witnesses: i

HARRY TAGGART, CORA BRENDLE. 

